Manager, Inventory Planning

About the role

Company Description: AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description: The Inventory Planning Manager owns the coordination of the master production plan within the manufacturing site and all associated follow‑on activities. Drives proper production scheduling adherence ensuring an optimized plan supporting efficiency and predictability. Enhances the capability of the site through optimizing planning parameters to drive efficiencies while supporting inventory targets across our key supply chain. Serves as the main point of contact for all our partners in supply chain while acting as a key site champion in driving the proper monthly Sales and Operations planning process along with supporting achievement of AbbVie’s financial and strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Manage the coordination/execution with the manufacturing department of the full window of firmed orders of the production schedule, supporting schedule execution and timely finished goods delivery.
• Oversee the site's work order coordinators/specialists supporting the production plan by providing guidance, coaching, and proper strategic direction.
• Handle unplanned orders and provide delivery commitments by checking material availability, and maintain constant communication with Corporate Planning or directly with customers.
• Communicate schedule changes/risk proactively with stakeholders and engage decision makers to enable right production decisions.
• Lead the overall daily schedule review process focused on monitoring performance and following through on resulting actions with material management and cross‑functional partners.
• Prepare the weekly/monthly production plan, incorporating known and projected demands, trends, manufacturing and finishing lead times, raw material and finishing supply lead times, inventory investment, and predetermined target levels.
• Manage the weekly MPS lock discussion meeting between cross‑functional plant groups to ensure the best finite schedule set is attainable by all parties.
• Drive the schedule reporting process to analyze Actuals vs. Plan/LBE, provide accurate and timely volume estimates for site financial reporting, and work with key stakeholders to understand drivers for variances.
• Maintain the effectiveness of the INFOR planning system for the material management department.
• Set strategic direction for new N